SUBMARINE SUPPLY TRANSPORTS

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1916, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUPPLY TRANSPORTS

iERMANS expect great things. Iteceived Oct. 11, 11.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct, 11. The Tyd learns from a German source :hat German submarines are supplied rom submarine transports stationed at i fixed time and place in tin. Atlantic, rho new submarine campaign is the vsult of a compromise between Hen' lollweg and his opponents in tin* Reichstag, and the Germans expect <;reat shings from attacks on American muni;ion transports. GERMANY'S INSUFFICIENT SUBMARINES. BRITISH SHIPOWNERS NOT ' PERTURBED. Received Oct. 11, S p.m. Router Service. London, Oct. 11. The secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association 3tates that the American submarine raid is not alarmng. The fact that operations are not londuetetV on both sides of the Atlantic showed that the Germans had insufficient submarines. Our loss of submarines durnj? the whole war is only ten. LAW NOT VIOLATED. - A NEW NOTE PROBABLE Received Oct. 12, 1.50 a.m. New York, Oct. 11. President Wilson and Mi. Lansing had i lengthy discussion on the submarine situation. It is believed they consider ;he law has not been violated, but ifficials at Washington predict a lew Note dealing with the perils of passengers, and whether placing them in ifeboats forty miles from land satisfies American demands. NEW BRITISH TONNAGE EeeeivedOct 11,10.30 p.m. London, Oct 11. Lloyd's register states that 409 niorihantmen are in course of construction segregating 1,750,000 tons, a substantial ncrease over that of 1910. GERMANY ELATED. Amsterdam, Oct. 10. Germany is elated at the success of submarines in America, believing that wholesale destruction of shipping will ;nd the war before the close of the year, [t is reported that Herr von Bethinann3olhveg made the concession as to reicwiiig submarine activity conditional jn its being restricted to American .vaters. The view is held that America svill be unwilling to declare war owing ;o the Presidential election, and meanwhile submarining in European and leutral waters will be disallowed. DOUBT ABOUT THE KINGSTON, New York, Oct. 10. It is reported that the Kingston, with i crew of fifty, is missing, but the •eports are contradictory, causing the jelief that the Kingston was perhaps not sorpedoed, and was possibly mistakenly ncluded in the victims by a wireless ;rror. THE DANISH SUBMARINE, Copenhagen, Oct. 10. • The erew of the Danish submarine Dykker were saved, with the exception )f the commander. During their imprisonment divers descended and knocked on the sides. A lieutenant replied with taps in the Morse code, inlicating the time they could hold out, md inquiring for news of the commander. A GERMAN CLAIM. Amsterdam, Oct. 10. Berlin message claim that the Germans submarined seven English vessels xnd three neutral, carrying contraband in the English Channel, between September 13 and October 5. SINKING OF THE GALLIA. Paris, Oct. 10. The Gallia, which was acting as an auxiliary cruiser and conveying French and Serbian troops, was torpedoed off Magadalin. The explosion destroyed the wireless outfit. A cruiser discovered a raft and boats in Thursday, and two other boats [•cached the southern coast of Sardinia. (The Gallia was a French liner of 15,000 tons, built in 1913.) REVICTUALLING REFUSED Rome, Oct. 10. A wireless message reports that the Government Ims definitely proh.bit.'sd German submarines from revic'.liaUing in Spanish waters. HOLLAND ANGRY. Amsterduni, Oct. 10. The torpedoing of the Blooniersdyk has angered Holland. An official inquiry is being opened. The Telegraf states that the cargo of the Brommeradyk was wholly consigned to, the Dutch Government.